"I think perhaps for the only time in history at the VMAs - we knew who was going to win the awards, we had a plan for it - at some point I let her know that she was probably going to be up on the podium at the end of the show for an award. She was like, 'I didn't know this was going to happen, I feel so bad for her.' And that's when it started to click in my head, and maybe hers, about potentially having the whole arc play out in that one night. "I walk behind the stage - and sure enough there is Beyoncé and her dad, and she is crying. He explained how it unfolded to Billboard. That’s when inspiration for a solution struck. Later on, Toffler also caught Beyoncé backstage in tears. Then he was sitting there next to Amber Rose with his arm around her, and you could feel everyone in Radio City glaring at his back.”
“I wasn't close enough to hear the conversation, but she was pointing in his face and nodding her head back and forth, and giving him her two cents about how fucked up this was and then stormed off. “During the commercial break, he went back down to his seat and Pink walked up to him and got in his face,” Montgomery said. Kevin Mazur // Getty ImagesĪccording to then-MTV senior correspondent James Montgomery, Pink exchanged some heated words with the rapper as soon as the cameras stopped rolling. Now, for this incident’s 10th anniversary, an oral history by Billboard reveals that there was a lot more to the story than what we saw onscreen.īeyoncé brings out Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs. “So, I’d like for Taylor to come out and have her moment.”
“I remember being 17 years old, up for my first MTV Award with Destiny’s Child, and it was one of the most exciting moments in my life,” Beyoncé said. “But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!"īeyoncé later gave up her own acceptance speech to bring Swift back onstage. "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish,” West said then, lines that are now as iconic as scripture. Kanye West (before becoming a burgeoning fashion mogul or Kim Kardashian's husband) cut Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech short to defend Beyoncé, who lost to Swift in the Best Female Video category.
You would have to live under a rock to not know the story of the infamous 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
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